As one of the many tourists trapped in NOLA
prior to, during and post-Katrina I am encouraged that there are brave souls
willing to go to court to point out the obsurdity of the bridge incident and
going after the "wrongness" of the situation.

Some of us thought that no one was coming to bring in supplies as the city
was surrounded by water. On Wednesday morning when we realized this was NOT
the case and that supplies were being PREVENTED from being brought in, we
knew we had to GET OUT of NOLA ASAP.

A reporter who pointed this out to us pointed to the Bridge and asked why we
didn't simply walk out. That was our plan. We were about an hour from
setting out there on foot when we were befriended by some great people from
the Marriott and lucky for us got on their bus to leave town AFTER policemen
from the NOPD gave us their weapons as they left their posts.

To those that think we needed to work on our "personal responsibility" -
what would you suggest we should have done in this situation?

I'd also like to ask the citizens of Louisiana why you all are not OUTRAGED
at decisions like this and aren't annoyed, disgusted and upset that the
state attorney went after the Drs who did the best they could under these
HORRIFIC conditions?

The insanity continues there. Watch for "No Ordinary Hurricane" as we've
written about our experience as tourists during this situation. America
needs to know the rest of the story. Plus we were white, we had money and
it didn't matter.....